Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been drawn up, and architects have been hired. And no one has gone to court. The reason is simple: the University and the neighbors worked out a compromise. Harvard agreed to build structures the same size as those in the bordering neighborhood, the neighbors agreed to swallow their minor objections and let the project progress without years of costly delay. The discussions are now nearing completion; it is worth hoping that they will serve as a model for working out future tensions...
...officer was struck in the face with a solution believed to be Mace, a form of tear gas, and vinegar. Although he had not regained his sight Sunday, doctors said the blindness was not expected to be permanent. Other police officers sustained scratches and minor injuries in scuffles with protesters, and one airline employee received 23 stitches in the leg when struck with a broken bottle...
Buildings and Grounds workers tried feverishly to stanch the flow, but the ancient pipes and hard-to-find shutoffs thwarted their efforts till nearly 11 p.m. When they finally fixed the leak, the Yard drained quickly and subsequent inspections revealed only minor damage to building basements and underground library stacks. By early morning, only a layer of mud was left as proof of the nighttime flood...
...week's end the President made his decision. According to the White House, a relatively mild cut of $11 billion will be made from the $554.5 billion in military-spending authorizations originally planned for fiscal 1983 and 1984. That will be preceded by a minor reduction of about $2 billion in the $221.3 billion already requested for fiscal 1982, which starts Oct. 1, mostly by delaying some unspecified weapons-procurement programs...
Most incidents are relatively minor. But some of the students reported being regularly beaten, kicked, bitten and pelted with objects. A few even spoke of threats with guns and knives. The case of Valerie, 20, and Steve, 23, two students at a large Western university, is in some ways typical. The couple had only been dating for three months when Steve slapped Valerie because he thought she was flirting with another man. Like most campus couples who later come to blows, they moved in together. After they began living together, his objections to imagined infidelities snowballed into furious, furniture-tossing...